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March 17, 2025
From 1942 to 1945, the Code Talkers were key to every major operation of the Marine Corps in the Pacific Theater.
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March 18, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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March 16, 2025
Yesterday, President Donald Trump reached back to 1798 for authority to expel five people he claims are members of a Venezuelan gang.
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March 17, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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March 15, 2025
March 15 is a crucially important day in U.S.
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March 16, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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March 14, 2025
Today the Senate passed a stopgap measure from the House of Representatives to fund the government for six months through September 30.
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March 15, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Perhaps the courts will save us from Trump!
March 13, 2025
Stocks fell again today.
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March 14, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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March 12, 2025
Trump’s 25% tariffs on all aluminum and steel imported into the U.S.
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March 13, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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March 11, 2025
The stock market continued to fall today.
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March 12, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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March 10, 2025
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March 10, 2025
Last week’s dramatically dropping stock market prompted Fox News Channel personality Maria Bartiromo to ask Trump in an interview that aired yesterday if he was expecting a recession.
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March 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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March 8, 2025
Yesterday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made it clear that the Trump administration’s goal is to slash the federal government and to privatize its current services.
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March 9, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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March 7, 2025
Black Americans outnumbered white Americans among the 29,500 people who lived in Selma, Alabama, in the 1960s, but the city’s voting rolls were 99% white.
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March 8, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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March 6, 2025
This morning, Ted Hesson and Kristina Cooke of Reuters reported that the Trump administration is preparing to deport the 240,000 Ukrainians who fled Russia’s attacks on Ukraine and have temporary lega...
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March 7, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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March 5, 2025
In the gym of Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, on March 5, 1946, former and future prime minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill rose to deliver a speech.
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March 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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March 3, 2025
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March 3, 2025
As seemed evident even at the time, the ambush of Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office on Friday was a setup to provide justification for cutting off congressionally approved aid to...
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March 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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March 2, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Russia now has it's top spy in the White House!
March 2, 2025
On February 28, the same day that President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D.
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March 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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February 28, 2025
Today, President Donald Trump ambushed Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky in an attack that seemed designed to give the White House an excuse for siding with Russia in its war on Ukraine.
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March 2, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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February 27, 2025
Yesterday an unvaccinated child in Texas died of measles as nearly 140 people in Texas and New Mexico have been reported ill with the disease.
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February 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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February 26, 2025
This morning, Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought and Office of Personnel Management acting director Charles Ezell sent a memo to the heads of departments and agencies.
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February 27, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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February 25, 2025
On Friday, February 21, former transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg posted: “A defining policy battle is about to come to a head in this country.
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February 26, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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February 24, 2025
Three years ago today, a massive influx of Russian troops crossed into Ukraine to join the troops that had been there since the 2014 invasion.
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February 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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February 22, 2025
Last night’s Friday Night News Dump was a doozy: Trump has purged the country’s military leadership.
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February 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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February 23, 2025
Something is shifting,” scholar of authoritarianism Timothy Snyder posted on Bluesky yesterday.
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February 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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February 21, 2025
In an appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) yesterday, billionaire Elon Musk seemed to be having difficulty speaking.
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February 22, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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February 20, 2025
On Monday, James Marriott of The Times, published in London, noted that the very stability and comfort of the post–World War II liberal order has permitted the seeds of its own destruction to flourish...
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February 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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February 19, 2025
The past week has solidified a sea change in American—and global—history.
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February 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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February 18, 2025
In a court filing last night, the Director of the Office of Administration in the Trump administration, Joshua Fisher, clarified the government position of billionaire Elon Musk.
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February 19, 2025 at 11:36 AM